﻿Yvette Kendall - Beyond Invention: Page 5/5﻿

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WJD: Beautifully said. How do you stay motivated and driven?﻿YK:﻿ My motivation comes from feeling like I have a job to do. Who does God give all this information to? Usually He spreads it out between 30, 40 or 50 people. He keeps dumping stuff into my head. Many things that I don’t even move on that come to fruition – sometimes three months later, sometimes six months later, sometimes a year or two later that’s a billion dollar product or process. So when I see it, I smile to myself. I’m like, “You really like me!” Even with the Kindle, the e-reader (Bookman) that I developed on my own, with no help, looking out of a window has changed the World and continues to do so. You have to smile on the inside and say, “He really likes me!” What I look like on the outside is totally different than what I am on the inside and it confuses a lot of people. People say, “You look like Jessica Rabbit but you act like Einstein!” WJD: (Laughs)﻿YK:﻿ I don’t know, maybe God was like, ‘You have to get these people’s attention and once you have them there, tell them about what else is going on.’ And I mention that because when you look at the F.B.I. Rocks website, I want people to know beautiful things can produce intelligent products. They act like those two things don’t go together.

WJD: I can definitely agree with that.

﻿YK:﻿ I am an anomaly in a lot of people’s eyes. Even some of the products I develop, like Ballisticks products, I’m doing anti-weaponry. I don’t know anything about anything in that field… I am one of the only Black Women doing anti-weaponry products.

So God has interjected me into some fields that I have no business in, that I’m excelling in.

When I do F.B.I. Rocks I do want to show that we are very feminine but look at what we’re doing. Ava Gardner, I believe, invented the process for Wi-Fi – she was also a beautiful screen actress. That duality can exist and this is why I play up the sexiness on our website and photos.

I even want to do an F.B.I. Rocks calendar. Every woman with the product she creates, we’re going to do a photo session around it but she’s going to be drop-dead gorgeous for her month.

There are a lot of things in play. Like I said funding right now is a big issue. The grand scope of F.B.I. Rocks – I’m telling young women that these patents are a commodity, they are collateral. You create something that’s worth a million or a billion dollars; you can not only change your life but the life of your community. We need to be holding this paper that is worth this money. WJD: Fantastic concept! So, when it’s all said and done, how do you want to be remembered?﻿YK:﻿ I want to be remembered as someone who changed the system. Someone who went against the grain. Someone that dared to do something that people thought we could not do. This is going to get real “urban”, but if you had to put something on my tombstone I want it to say, “She did that!” (Laughs) [I’ve lost a lot and it was devastating] and everything that it takes to continue to keep this running is a big deal. I’m looking for investors, I’m looking for exposure, I’m looking for assistance, I’m looking for people willing to donate and be a part of the organization. I’ve started another organization that piggy-backs off of F.B.I. Rocks because I’m not trying to exclude other nationalities and races, I’m trying to include us. I had to focus on who was missing in the equation of innovation. And it was black people number one, but especially females. This organization is called, Innovation Domination, and that includes everyone. It’s going to be a very unique platform in regards to innovation that’s going to be changing things across the World. We’re going to be donating a lot of this innovation to other organizations and countries. So I’m still working on that but that’s definitely going to be what it is. Even with my current situation, even when God speaks it to me, I have to put it in play. Even if it has to sit for a moment, so that piece of the puzzle can be there. I’m actually being honored on June 6th (2014), in California. They wanted me to be the role-model for their organization because of the work I've done. They were working with NASA trying to find a way to prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth. They wanted to change its trajectory and then they wanted to mine on it after that. The organization basically told me that they couldn't talk to me right now because they were working on this project. I asked if they had figured it out and they said, “No,” so at the end of the conversation I asked if I could say something. I then told them that they could use this particular method to stop the asteroid. They went and talked to whomever, and they came back and said it was valid and wanted to use it. So they put me on the A-Man Inc., STEM International team! (Laughs)And I was tickled, I don’t know anything about space but I literally… I’ll tell you now. It felt like God pulled my scalp back, dropped information in and it rolled out of my mouth. So I’m getting my first ever award in the field of innovation. I've never been recognized up until now. WJD: Your life journey sounds amazing! How can people get in contact with you?﻿YK:﻿ My main websites are: ﻿www.FBIRocks.com﻿ also [﻿HERE﻿]. I’m currently working on merging them.